The past week has been a little lax as far as schoolwork. Granted, we watched videos about sharks, read some books about sharks and made some shark pictures, but we never got around to my idea for shark math, and several other thoughts I had. So, into the future idea bin go: School of fish drawn on paper and a paper shark cutout. Cover a number of the fish school and count how many are left! And… Once more we’ve not written our shark song, or our spider song, or our horse song. So…this coming week we are writing a song about something.
That aside, Ronan made a breakthrough this week in his coloring of a shark page from our creatures of Hawaii coloring book. Using both hands indiscriminately, he colored his sharks with more care than I’ve ever seen him use in coloring. While he didn’t remain entirely in the confines of the shark’s outline, he still managed to color the shark and not just scribble the whole page! Jonas used a red pen and a blue pen, making his shark picture a two-toned marvel of precise scribbles. 
Perhaps the reason we did little this week as far as sharks go was because the boys already know a lot from one of their favorite books: “Surprising Sharks,” by Nicola Davies. This book is beautifully written and illustrated to teach kids about sharks, showing them the marvelous and irreplaceable creatures that they are. Jonas has learned from this book that sharks bones are made of the same stuff as our noses and ears, cartilage! Both boys point out their favorites from the pictures of different sharks that are illustrated in the front and back of the book. “What’s this mom, oh yeah it’s a whale shark!”Aside from reading stories, watching videos and coloring pictures, the boys worked on letters and attempted to memorize the name for shark in Spanish. ‘R’s still manage to elude them in Spanish so the actual pronunciation ended up being Tibu
Next we study knights and chivalry in preparation for Jonas’ knight-themed birthday party!
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